公开(公告)号：US10186254B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-22

申请号：US14846667

申请日：2015-09-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Shaun E. Williams ,  Henry G. Mason ,  Mahesh Krishnamoorthy ,  Matthias Paulik ,  Neha Agrawal ,  Sachin S. Kajarekar ,  Selen Uguroglu ,  Ali S. Mohamed

IPC: G10L15/00 ,  G10L17/00 ,  G10L21/00 ,  G10L15/04 ,  G10L25/87 ,  G10L17/02 ,  G10L25/78

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to context-based endpoint detection in user speech input. A method for identifying an endpoint of a spoken request by a user may include receiving user input of natural language speech including one or more words; identifying at least one context associated with the user input; generating a probability, based on the at least one context associated with the user input, that a location in the user input is an endpoint; determining whether the probability is greater than a threshold; and in accordance with a determination that the probability is greater than the threshold, identifying the location in the user input as the endpoint.